News from the Honors Program

Honors Program Reception, Oct. 26, 1-2:30, SC108B

The Honors Program is sponsoring its Fall reception on Monday, Oct. 26th. All friends of Honors are invited. Students interested in joining are especially encouraged to attend.

Honors Program offers first Study Abroad opportunity, May 2010

Sign up NOW for short-term Study Abroad to Germany and Austria in May 2010. The study tour is designed to compliment Prof. Christy Reynolds's Honors Sociology course offered in the Spring 2010 semester. Students do not have to take Honors Sociology to participate in the Study Abroad tour, however. All NWACC students are invited to participate.

The tour is organized through EF Tours. A booklet with more information is available in Dr. Brown's box outside of her office in BH 2007. You may also visit the EF Tours website to view details about their programs and policies. EF Tours will set up a payment plan and provide insurance. Students may enroll now. For more information about our Study Abroad to Germany/Austria, please contact Prof. Louton at 619-4350.

Honors Program graduates

The Honors Program congratulates Caleb Smith, Maria Pulido, and Guadalupe Garcia, Fall 2008 and Spring 2009 Honors Program Graduates!

Honors Scholarship Recipients, 2009-2010

Congratulations scholarship winners! Bobi Beebe, Hafsa Fateh, Mark Dillard, and Gavin Smith were awarded scholarships for the 2009-2010 academic year.

Honors scholarships are awarded annually. Honors Program members will be notified if additional scholarship funds become available during the school year.

Honors Program sponsors college's 1st themed semester

The Honors Program sponsored NWACC's first themed semester, NWACC SEAS, the Southeast Asia Semester last Spring. It was a HUGE success!

A special thank you goes out to Honors faculty members Doug Krueger and Val Pickett who gave presentations on SE Asian religions. Our headlining performer was Tou Ger Xiong, a Hmong comedian/storyteller who performed to a capacity crowd in White Auditorium on April 29th. Thanks to Lou Lo, Dale Montgomery, and Viviana Pagan who helped make the event such a success.

Next Spring the Honors Program will help sponsor the college's 2nd themed semester with a focus on Germany. The subject of the semester was purposefully chosen to coincide with the Program's first Study Abroad event. Prof. Christy Reynolds will be taking students to Germany and Austria in May 2010. Contact Prof. Louton with any questions about the course or the trip.

Honors students visit Little Rock

Students in Honors U.S. history and English courses visited Central High School and the Clinton Presidential Library with instructors Greg Kiser and Angie Albright during the Spring 2008 semester. Kiser and Albright taught linked U. S. history and composition classes to create a learning community. The same students enrolled in both courses which met back to back in the same classroom. Students read and wrote about the material being covered in the history class, which gave them a chance to delve more deeply into the history as well as giving them a better historical foundation for their writing.

For more about the trip to Little Rock, click here to view a Weekly Insider article about the trip (page 2) .

History & Political Science students visit first colony & nation's capitol

As part of their History of the American People to 1877 Honors and American National Government Honors courses, students visited Jamestown, VA, the site of the first successful British colony, Colonial Williamsburg, VA, and Washington, D.C. Students viewed an active excavation site at Jamestown where the original settlement stood in 1607. Students knocked back ale and biscuits at a period tavern in Colonial Williamsburg, and sat in on the reading of a verdict at the U.S. Supreme Court. See images below chronicling their travels. The courses were in conjunction with the Honors Summer Travel Program. Ask us where we're going next!

Honors students conduct forum

NWACC's Honors Seminar Students recently organized and offered an open forum for the Upward Bound Students. The forum took place in Burns Hall 2453-2473 on March 11 with more than 40 students and parents attending the stimulating discussion. The forum, titled "Building Blocks: Constructing Lives in a Diverse Northwest Arkansas," resulted in ideas for numerous Service Learning projects that future NWACC students can implement to meet community needs related to diversity.

Below are some highlights from that event.

The Honors Students make final preparations for the forum in the early afternoon of March 11. From left to right are: Ian Robertson, Inder Pal Singh, Amanda Culmer, Melanie Beal, Maria Pulido, Becky Hudson, Chris Cuchia, and Caleb Mosby.

Here Amanda Culmer leads the discussion on the Socio-Cultural Dynamics of living in Northwest Arkansas. She, along with the other honors students, was trained on February 7 by Dr. Virginia York of the Community College National Center for Civic Engagement to plan, organize, and offer a forum on immigration (see last photograph below) . The Upward Bound students really enjoyed the conversation and came up with some good ideas for NWACC student Service Learning projects.

Ian Robertson lead the discussion of the Economic Effects of Diversity and in the background Chris Cuchia and Valerie Learned serve as recorders, taking notes on the advantages and concerns of diversity and then also record the ideas for college student projects.

Here Caleb Mosby wraps up the forum by asking the Upward Bound students to assess their comments. It is clear by all the recorded comments on the wall that the students were really engaged in the discussion and were very interested in letting the NWACC's honors students know how they felt and what they believed could be done by future college students to meet community needs in diversity.

 

 

 

Dr. Virginia York, of the Community College National Center for Civic Engagement, trains the honors students on how to plan, prepare for, and offer a forum. She made it clear to Melanie Beal (in the foreground) and the other students that a forum is a discussion designed to solve problems, not a debate that results in a winner and a loser.

 

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